- Date
- August 30, 2026, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ronkonkoma, NY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N203AGCSP Leasing Cavalon
- Defining event
- Taxi-to runway: Mast bumping
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260830011569A
- Case key
- 203725
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N203AG
- Reported as
- CSP Leasing Cavalon
- Category
- Gyroplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- V00225
- Built
- 2015
- Airframe hours
- 750
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cavalon 203ag LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 10, 2026
- Departed
- ISP · Islip, NY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- ISP · Long Island Mac Arthur Airport, runway 06/24, 7,006 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.16 inHg
- Observed at
- ISP
- METAR
- KISP 301456Z 25012KT 10SM BKN250 25/14 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP214 T02500139 58011
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.